Sunday, September 16, 2007

While in the Kitchen, Stir the Stew and Surf the Web - New York Times

Given current laptop prices, why not just bring a laptop into the kitchen/wherever?

“Forty-seven percent of all American adults have a broadband connection at home as of early 2007,” said Mary Madden, a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That connection has prompted people to do more and more on the computer, from video-watching to discarding phone books and cookbooks in favor of online research. “Once people get that always-on connection,” she said, “they do more of everything online.”